High Five

The paperback release of this high-octane thriller that had the critics raving is being boosted by a summer-long $400,000 marketing blitz. Everyone's favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, sets out to find her missing uncle and runs into some wild characters, including a stun-gun-toting grandmother. Alternate Selection of the LG, Doubleday Book Club, and Main Selection of Mystery Guild.

Martin's Press. Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie Plum throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo.

But hey, nobody's perfect Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who's missing after arguing with his garbage company; homicidal rapist Benito Ramirez is back, quoting scripture and stalking Stephanie; vice cop Joe Morelli has a box of condoms with Stephanie's name on it; and Stephanie's afraid Ranger has his finger on her trigger. The whole gang's here for mirth and mayhem in Janet Evanovich's High Five.

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